Haig Manoogian was an Armenian-American professor of film at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 and a major early influence for many filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

, who was a student of his.

Martin Scorsese

Manoogian co-produced Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door

Who's That Knocking at My Door

Who's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is a 1967 drama film, which marks Martin Scorsese's debut as a director. Exploring themes of Catholic guilt similar to those in his later film Mean Streets, the story follows Italian-American J.R. as he struggles to accept the secret...

. Raging Bull is dedicated to him.

Ares Demertzis

Director/Cameraman Ares Demertzis was an undergraduate and later graduate student of Manoogian. He documented some of his experiences in a short story published on the monthly web magazine New English Review, titled “TMR 101, The Making of a Film Director.”

External links

• Haig P. Manoogian at the Internet Movie Database